An itinerant surgeon extracting stones from a man's head; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly' (insanity), they are surrounded by a group of people. Pencil drawing by P. Quast, 1645.

  • Quast, Pieter Jansz., 1606-1647.
Date:
1645
Reference:
21093i

Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Credit: An itinerant surgeon extracting stones from a man's head; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly' (insanity), they are surrounded by a group of people. Pencil drawing by P. Quast, 1645. Source: Wellcome Collection.